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Dr. Rhonda Patrick answers audience questions on various health, nutrition, and science topics in this Q&A session.

Dr. Rhonda Patrick discusses cancer prevention, linoleic acid, shingles vaccine and dementia, creatine's kidney effects, and shares her overnight oats recipe.

“Chronic sleep deprivation, such as often occurs during bouts of insomnia, is associated with a shift in the balance of immune cells to a pattern that is less able to clear a viral infection. In this clip, Dr. Rhonda Patrick discusses how a lack of sleep impacts the immune response.”

“Furthermore, people who got more sleep before being immunized had a better immune response and higher antibody titers. In this clip, Dr. Roger Seheult discusses the importance of getting enough sleep for proper immune functioning and resisting viral infections.”

“A perplexing aspect of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, is that people respond to it in disparate ways — some exhibiting no symptoms at all, and others experiencing life-threatening complications.”

“Vitamin D also increases T-regulatory cells, which play a major role in keeping the immune system in check, particularly when it comes to autoimmune diseases. Vitamin D inhibits the production of proinflammatory cytokines, which can play a role in a cytokine storm.”

“Autophagy is a highly conserved adaptive response to stress during which a cell gathers unnecessary or damaged cellular components such as protein aggregates, pathogens, or organelles into vesicles and delivers them to lysosomes for destruction.”

Dr. Rhonda Patrick answers audience questions on various health, nutrition, and science topics in this Q&A session.

“A growing body of evidence indicates that the fasting-mimicking diet may be beneficial in treating autoimmune disorders. In these Aliquot segments, Dr. Rhonda Patrick and Dr. Valter Longo describe the roles that diet and fasting play in maintaining or restoring proper immune function.”

“Dr. Shinya Yamanaka discovered a group of proteins that can reprogram differentiated (mature) cells into pluripotent stem cells. These proteins, now called Yamanaka factors, are highly expressed in embryonic stem cells in mice and humans.”